Encampment \En*camp"ment\, n.

1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.

A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. --Gibbon.

A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)